All suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their happiness or satisfaction.

Anything that contradicts experience and logic should be abandoned.

Once we have a firm practice of compassion our state of mind becomes stronger which leads to inner peace, giving rise to self-confidence, which reduces fear. This makes for constructive members of the community. Self-centredness on the other hand leads to distance, suspicion, mistrust and loneliness, with unhappiness as the result.

As people alive today, we must consider future generations: a clean environment is a human right like any other. It is therefore part of our responsibility toward others to ensure that the world we pass on is as healthy, if not healthier, than we found it.

It's unrealistic to think that the future of humanity can be achieved only on the basis of prayer; what we need is to take action.

A truly peaceful mind is very sensitive, very aware.

The truly good gaze upon everything with love and understanding.